Improvement in sash-holders



UNITED .STATES u PATENT QFFICE.

SAMUEL I. ANDERSON, PHILO WALDEN, AND `EZEKIEL P. MORE, OF WEST EATON, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN SASH-HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 143,655, dated October 14, 1873; application filed September 20, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, S. I. ANnERsoN, PHILO WALDEN, and E. P. MORE, of -West Eaton, in the county of Madison and State of New York, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Window-Fasteners, Src.; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and ii gures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of our sash holder and set with side plate removed. Fig. 2 is a view of one of these plates. Fig. 3 is an end view or front view of same.

This invention relates to combined window stops and fasteners, wherein a spring-bolt and a friction-wheel are applied in the same frame, the spring-bolt serving to lock the windowsash down, and the friction-wheel serving as a means for holding the sash at differentpoints when raised. The nature of our invention consists in a two-part frame, which can be readily cast in molds, and which is adapted to receive and keep in place a spring-bolt and verticallymovable friction-wheel, as will be hereinafter explained.

The following is a description of our iinprovement In the drawing, A A representthe two halves Vof our improved ame, and B is a frictionwheel, which is applied in a recess, a, made 1n this frame belowa spring-bolt, O. The back of the recess a presents an inclined surface, al, and the lower end of this recess presents a concave seat, a2. In the side walls of the recess a grooves b b are made, which are parallel to the inclined surface al, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The iction-wheel B is formed upon an axis, c, the ends of which play loosely in the inclined grooves b b, and allow the wheel to roll up and down in its recess. The

axis c also keeps the wheel B in its recess. This wheel B is preferably made of india-rubber, with its periphery serrated or scored 5 but 4it may be made of any other material which will afford the required friction and elasticity. Above the recess a a circular hole, f, is made through the frame A A, presenting' interiorly two shoulders, t' i. This hole receives a bolt, C, around which is coiled a spring, s, which spring is confined between a collar, c', on bolt O, and one of the shoulders c' in the hole f. (Shown in Fig. l.) Vhen thebolt andthe wheel are adjusted in their places in one part of the frame, the other part is applied thereon and secured by means of screws. The device is then ready to be applied to a window-sash. The bolt O is intended for securing the sash when it is down, and the wheel B is intended for holding the sash at any desired height by the friction and binding action which this wheel affords on the window -fraine During the act of raising the sash the wheelB `remains upon its seat a2, and offers no resistance; but when the sash isreleased the wheel will rise in its recess, and atthe saine time be forced outward by the inclined surface al.

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The two-part frame A A, constructed with a recess, a, an inclined back, al, seat a2, and inclined grooves b b, adapted to receive the friction-wheel B and its axis c, in combination with the shouldered hole f for receiving the' spring-bolt O, as herein described and shown. In testimony that we clainrthe above we have hereunto subscribed our names in the presence of two witnesses. y

SAMUELl I. ANDERSON. PHIL() VALDEN. EZEKIEL P. MORE.

Witnesses:

E. S. GARD, C. W. HATCH. 

